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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 1:49 PM CST for Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2000, 1:49 PM CST (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Houston County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 161951 TORTLH ALC069-162030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 149 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES COTTONWOOD... * UNTIL 230 PM CST... * AT 147 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COTTONWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COTTONWOOD BY 200 PM CST... ASHFORD BY 215 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY! IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 3101 8548 3101 8519 3101 8502 3127 8514 .END 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 44 min |
| Dec 16, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 26 min |
| Dec 16, 11:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale | 29 min |
| Dec 16, 11:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 48 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.